Video Games : Chessmaster 10th Edition JC

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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Encore
EAN: 0705381155409
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Encore
Manufacturer: Encore
Model: 15540
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Encore
Release Date: January 04, 2008
Sales Rank: 1993
Studio: Encore

Features:

New Chessmaster Academy - At the Academy, International Master Josh Waitzkin walks players through the basics of chess, plus introduce a variety of simple strategies for dominating your opponent. The Academy also features the best attacking moves as taught by noted chess champion, Larry Christiansen
Completely revised interface - clean, clear, and easy to navigate, this all-new interface represents the biggest upgrade to the look and feel of Chessmaster in over seven years.
Full-featured online chess module - more than just a place to play chess live with other players, Chessmaster online allows players to establish rankings, create tournaments, utilize teaching tools, and join a thriving chess community
More fun for the whole family - Features such as animated chess sets, a variety of whimsical 3D sets, and simple and efficient learning tools, makes chess more fun than ever. Younger players and chess beginners will appreciate the specialized section just for them. As players improve, the game suggests an appropriate AI opponent
Comprehensive chess engine - wise enough to teach an absolute beginner and powerful enough to defeat a grandmaster, experience the all-new edition of the King engine--the brains behind the best-selling brand in chess

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Want to play a game of chess? Don't know how? Chessmaster 10th Edition delivers on its promise to make you a better chess player. The program will improve your game regardless of your level of experience. This landmark edition provides the largest upgrade ever to the features and graphics of the franchise. Whether you are new to chess or a tournament-level player, Chessmaster 10th Edition allows you to master history's greatest game. Whether you're a novice or a master, this is your route to saying 'Yes' whenever someone wants a game of chess. Intermediate and advanced player options - seasoned chess players can test their skills against ranked AI opponents, set up tournaments and simultaneous exhibitions, and survey their performances using the new statistics system

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Great Chess Tutoring and Playing Program (at a low price!)
Chessmaster 10 Jewel Case (CM10 JC) is a great program at an amazingly low price. It features good tutorials for chess beginners as well as exercises for club-level players. Its full playing strength is of course well beyond the ability of 98% of chess players, but the game also matches you with AI opponents at your level (Elo rating) and selects your AI opponents over time to match you as your ratings (from the games) goes slowly up - hopefully - or down. I have enjoyed this program. I have also in the past bought and used Fritz, Hiarcs, Rebel and ChessPartner, and they are all excellent as well. However, they are more expensive than CM10 JC, and so the latter makes pc chess more acccessible to many people, including youth. I really recommend CM10 JC for all the reasons above. I do note that some here have had bad experiences with running CM10 JC on Win XP. I have Win XP SP3 myself, and the installation and running of the game were both flawless! Someone else complained that one has to have the CD (yes, this is not a DVD program) in the CD-ROM drive when running the game. The latest patch from UbiSoft fixed this, and I never have to insert the game CD any more. So at least on the basis of my personal experience, I can wholeheartedly recommend this chess software on the basis of both fun and of Win XP compatibility.

Rating:

- CD protection is a nuisance
I have nothing against people protecting their product but the CD protection on this product made it virtually unusable for me. I installed it on a laptop that does not have a perminant CD drive, the laptop is small and good for use when travelling. Whenever I attempt to use the product it always requests me to load the install CD -- this apparently is a copyright protection mechanism that is described in the user manual. There are claims in the documentation that it is possible to get it to only ask once every so many attempts to play but for me it always asked even if I did a "full" install of all components. Its probably a nice product if you can use it but it didn't work t all for me.

Rating:

- Mediocre game from a company with bad tech support
I recently purchase and installed Chessmaster 10th edition.
This game takes 1.6GB space on hard disk and requires keeping CD in the drive or it doesn't start. According to Ubisoft tech support, it only works for one account- administrator who installed the game.
Game has some obvious bugs, such as pop up windows sometimes stay on top of chess board and you can't see the game. Tech support said this issue may have been solved in their updates, but problem is that updating doesn't work and I was unable to resolve the issue with Ubisoft tech support. Their help is laughable: Update drivers, defragment disk, empty windows Temp directory, and empty recycle bin. None of that had any affect on updates.
Buyer be ware.

Chessmaster 10th Edition JC

Rating:

- media quality is suspect
I have really benefitted from the instructional materials in Chessmaster 8000, but it is very unstable on Windows XP. So I was very eager to give this 10th Edition a try, now that the price is so low. Unfortunately, it hasn't worked for me. My 6-year-old laptop could not read disc 3 during the installation, so I obtained another copy. This time, two of the three discs were unreadable. My laptop reads other discs just fine, and my other computer (a hefty mid-tower desktop machine) seems to read Chessmaster 10th Edition OK. I guess I can't entirely rule out a problem with my laptop's drive. However, looking at the software CDs, I suspect that Ubisoft has been using very low quality discs. They contain a lot of speckling, scratches, and other surface defects which can be felt with my finger. My laptop's DVD+RW drive might not be the best at handling these things compared with what's in my desktop computer, but it seems clear to me that something's wrong with these discs - not the drive.

Since I want this primarily for my laptop, I'm going to try to return this software again. I don't think getting this to work is worth a hardware upgrade. Perhaps I'll try the next edition instead.

Rating:

- great chess game
This is the classic Chess tutorial and adversary - and this edition does not disappoint. Intuitive interface is easy to navigate, tutorials bring a player of any level up to speed, the sophisticated adjustable skill rating for the computer opponent is great, the advanced attacking tutorials are useful, the puzzles are good breaks for work/studying. Overall an amazing value for just ten dollars. Buy if you want to improve your chessgame or if you want a new challenge.


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